Scientific and academic publishing is broken. The vast majority of the journals have been privatized by publishers who charge astronomical fees for access to the literature.

And other lessons learned from creating a popular open-source project (JSON5)

Rather than hoping for a magic fix to neutralise our emissions, it is more realistic to fund projects that involve direct and strategic impact

the forgotten data structure (not really)

Economics that regards people more democratically.

“I am writing a book,” says the man at the drinks party, in the old Peter Cook cartoon. “Neither am I,” replies his companion. Still makes me laugh. But would now work with “I am reading a book”, too.

I spent the last years making technology calm and pleasant to use. This is roughly how I did it.

In a series of gruesome videos, a man wearing a cowboy hat mutilates a Ukrainian prisoner of war before murdering him. Open source evidence suggests the involvement of a Chechen-led paramilitary group.

Available now on Steam and Nintendo Switch I started this game back in 2020 as a fun little side-project to pass the time during the pandemic with lots of help from my son. Back then we didn’…

In 1976 Julian Jaynes published his controversial book The Origins of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, introducing the hypothesis of a two-chambered brain-mind model that preceded the evolutionary development of the conscious mind. Jaynes'…

As Craig Wright’s legal tussles pile up, the world is no closer to knowing who the currency’s inventor really is

Update on Microsoft Teams & Tutanota

Neil Gaiman's "The Sandman" finally makes it to the screen as a TV series Friday, when it premieres on Netflix. Here's how it happened.

There’s a javanoscript emulator for the TI83+, TI84+, and TI84+CSE calculators called jsTIfied, which was written by Christopher Mitchell, founder of the calculator fan site cemetech.net. There’s not a whole lot of reasons to use it over something else if you’ve…